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Board rules

These rules are disclosed to clarify the various responsibilities of all community members here on HammockHangers.net. They shall be adhered to by everyone to ensure that our board runs smoothly and provides a fun and productive experience for all of our community members and visitors.

Forum Rules

Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below). #

Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. #

Members are asked to not act as “back seat moderators”. If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderator Team. Please use the “post report” feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly “act” as moderators may be warned. #

Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. #

Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed. With that said, any non copyrighted material you post is YOUR property. HammockHangers.net will never take or claim your intellectual property.#

Members are asked only to post in English, as this is an English speaking community. #

Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline () image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed. #

Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned. #

Members should use an appropriate, descriptive subject when posting a new topic. #

Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information. #

The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit, remove or put on moderation queue any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users. #

The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging. #

Signatures

Signatures may contain up to five lines of normal sized text OR a single image that is no more than 50px high, 200x wide, 10KiB (10240 bytes) in size and one line of small sized text. The font size of signatures should be normal or small only. #

Content in signatures should be consistent with normal writing and abide by the general forum etiquette. You may not include hidden text or links #

Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of 3* links. You may not link to warez, pornographic, racist or other similar extremist sites. Team members and users affiliated with the development and maintenance of HammockHangers.net are allowed further additional links to aid support of the product. #

Remote signature images must have a consistently high availability to ensure page load times are not affected. Animated images are not permitted #

Users abusing these rules will be warned or have their signature privileges revoked. #

Avatars

Avatars should be no larger than 150x150 pixels and should not exceed 10KiB (10240 bytes) in size. #

Avatars must not contain animation or include graphics which attempt to portray the ranks or avatars of HammockHangers.net Team Members. Users are permitted to utilize an avatar from the HammockHangers.net gallery or link externally to one of their own. #

Remote avatars must have a consistently high availability to ensure page load times are not affected. #

Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to the general forum etiquette. #

Users abusing these rules will be warned or have their avatar privileges revoked. #

Policing

HammockHangers.net operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days. #

Arguing with team members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above. #

Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact an Admin. If they feel you were treated badly they will remove a warning. #

Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban or other moderator action will lead to a permanent ban of your account(s). Circumvention includes re-registering or using an already registered account under a non-banned username. Other examples include changing IP addresses, using a new email account or other action that can be taken to evade moderator action to hide your identity as the owner of the sanctioned account. #

An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban. #

Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While HammockHangers.net may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time, don't hold your breath. #